You Were Lied To About Killdozer
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In November 1991, Marvin Heemeyer took a vacation to Grand Lake, Colorado, fell in love, and decided to make it his home. Less than a year later, in April of 1992, he found himself the owner of a muffler shop he never intended to buy. Six months later, he tried to be a good citizen and connect the property to the town sewer system. What followed was a decade of delays, miscommunications and lies which ate away at Marv's business and his hope. In July of 2002, Marv stumbled across an auction ad for a Komatsu D355A bulldozer. Around this time, Marv began to perceive that he - and his bulldozer - were to be the instruments of God's retribution against the corrupt. Two years later, on June 4, 2004, after welding himself inside his heavily modified Komatsu, Marv Heemeyer, a reasonable man, was compelled to do unreasonable things. Welcome back to the Lore Lodge...
Script link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/killdoz...
Sources, in order of appearance:
https://web.archive.org/web/200406082...
https://killdozerbook.com/2018/07/fak...
https://www.skyhinews.com/news/grand-...
https://www.skyhinews.com/news/tiffs-...
https://www.co.grand.co.us/DocumentCe...
https://www.skyhinews.com/news/brower...
EDIT - Sources used throughout:
Tread Documentary, Netflix, Zipper Bros., Sutter Road
Heemeyer Tapes, Marvin Heemeyer, and Storyblocks
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0:00:00 - Cold Open
0:00:20 - Introduction
0:07:47 - A Reasonable Man
0:15:13 - The Auction
0:25:12 - The Sewer Issue
0:34:43 - Escalation
0:42:57 - The Unclosable Deal
0:51:42 - The Zoning Trial
0:55:10 - Unreasonable Things
1:00:27 - Killdozer
1:08:00 - Hero or Villain?